Pegasus Vs. Chimera

Right, well there are worse SyFy Channel movies out there, and "Pegasus vs Chimera" is a close runner up. I enjoy fantasy movies and movies that deal with mythology, but this movie was just not really worth the effort.

The story is about King Orthos (played by Carlo Rota) who wants to unite all seven realms into one nation with him as self-proclaimed emperor, and he lays waste to all in his path to oppose him and do not kneel before his might. Belleros (played by Sebastian Roché) who saw his father killed by King Orthos's men as a child is drawn into the conflict as an adult when princess Philony (played by Nazneen Contractor) shows up at his blacksmith store. But King Orthos have had his warlock Actae (played by James Kidnie) summon forth a chimera from Hades to track down and kill the last survivors that stand against him. And in order to best this demonic creature, Belleros and Philony gets help by a pegasus that is summoned to their aid by the witch Mayda (played by Rae Dawn Chong).

The storyline and concept idea is in itself good enough and had potential. However, the movie just failed to deliver given its low production value, questionable CGI effects, and an overwhelming lack of convincing the audience that this is taking place in a fantasy setting.

It should be said that the chimera was really nicely animated and looked rather cool. Thumbs up for this, because it really made the movie worth watching for this creature alone. The chimera looked realistic and moved about in a realistic way. Plus the details on it was quite cool, and it made for a pretty mean movie creature.

But on the opposite hand, then the pegasus was really badly animated about 90% of the time you saw it. You never saw its wings disappear or appear, as this creature oddly enough could manage to make them go away when on the ground. And for some strange reason when airborne, the pegasus suddenly had armor and padding on it, but this magically disappeared together with the wings while on the ground. And pay close attention to the two scenes where the pegasus takes flight with Bellerus and Philony on it the first time, and again when it lands. By all that is unholy, that was some of the worst CGI animation I had ever seen.

The acting in the movie was half-hearted and wooden at best. You never really bought into the characters, because they were portrayed in a sense that you made think that the actors themselves didn't buy into this movie.

Speaking of half-hearted things, then the very first fight with two of King Orthos men - where Actae kills Bellerus's father - has got to be one of the worst sword battle scenes in the history of filmmaking. It was so wooden and badly choreographed that it was literally painful to witness.

Princess Philony said in the movie, something about being able to lay a hail of arrows with her bow, but pay attention to how awkwardly she is holding the bow when firing it. It just makes you laugh.

"Pegasus vs Chimera" is in the lower end of the budget and entertainment-wise scale as far as fantasy movies go. If you watch this movie, do it for the chimera, because everything else was not really worth mentioning.

I saw Pegasus vs. Chimera having little else to do, and as I've said many times SyFy movies are mostly terrible but there's something about their badness that makes me curious as to whether they're capable of making a worthwhile movie. They've actually done a few of those, but they're far too between, and Pegasus vs. Chimera is not one of them. Not one of SyFy's worst, but other than the scenery which is quite nice, I did find it very difficult to find anything halfway decent, let alone good, in this film. Technically, it is very poor. The special effects are really crude and fake-looking, Pegasus is nowhere near mythical/magical enough and Chimera is more Manticore than Chimera. But what made Pegasus vs. Chimera even more horrible to watch was the camera work, the shaky camera technique I've seen far too many times, here it is overused and made me very dizzy(not good for my recently diagnosed epilepsy). Pegasus vs. Chimera is very badly written too, I never warmed to the annoying stereotypical characters, the overall cheesiness of the writing and the unexciting predictability of the story. The final battle between the two titular characters fails to rouse or thrill, with no sense of conflict. I have seen worse acting before, but this is the sort of cast who tries but can't do anything with what they are given, which was hardly a surprise to me. In conclusion, an awful and almost irredeemable movie. 1/10 Bethany Cox

I originally only watched the last hour of this movie and glad that was all. This film lacked many necessary features in order to make it any type of real monster conflict movie. There were also numerous details that were missing or conflicted. A Pegasus is supposed to have wings and this only showed a white horse - boo hiss. A Chimera, although various depictions exist, is mainly a multi-headed beast which this was not. Towards the end where the Chimera and the Pegasus were battling, the movie showed a wound to the left side of the Pegasus and then shortly afterwards, the wound was on the right. Get serious, what kind of amateur would allow that! Also the camera man was so shaky at numerous points, I almost got seasick. Overall this was a lackluster attempt at a mythological conflict and wasn't worth the time to even view it.